Where To From Here?

The next step after designing the Folie is to take the basic concepts behind it and use them to create a new building.

In essence, it is Folie to Building.

The new building must be situated on the same site, but be a minimum of 500 square metres and a maximum of a 1000.

From here, the university students were split up into theme groups, where each group would focus on a different approach to the design, with different objectives and different outputs. Some theme groups chose the building you were to design, while others allowed you to decide for yourself.

The theme group I chose was called "The New Machine" with Ben Parker of CCN Architects as the Theme Group leader.

This theme group was to focus on emerging technologies and how they could be included in architecture. The idea behind it is to use technology which is cutting edge at the present, but could filter down through the ranks to be a normal building function in possibly 15 years. This can already be seen in practice, such as automatic lights, whole house stereo system and ambience settings.

After talking with the tutor, we were told to decide on a few technologies to research and a building typology to use that hold some relevence to the Folie.

The Theme Groups Banner